Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are used to make your time spent on our website as efficient and informative as possible.

They are named after the IT term ‘magic cookies’ which itself is derived from a fortune cookie, with an embedded message. Another theory is that they are so-called after the fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel who marked their route through the forest with a trail cookie crumbs.

With your permission, we place a cookie on the hard drive of your computer when you visit our website. When you return to our site, we can remember your log in details and preferences (assuming you haven’t deleted your internet history) to make the website faster and easier to use.

We do not store personally identifiable information nor can we access any of your personal data stored on your computer.

To find out more about cookies, visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/

How we use cookies

We use cookies to enable certain functions, to provide analytics, to store your preferences and manage your session with us.

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. We do not require your consent to use these cookies. The website cannot function properly without them.

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Statistic cookies help us to understand how you interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. They provide us with anonymised demographics and browsing activity information, and help us to tailor and measure the effectiveness of our website and our advertising on social media sites.

3rd Party Cookies such as Google, You Tube or any platform, do not store any of your personal details. We do not have access or control over the cookies and technologies that our partners use.

How to control or delete cookies

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need to obtain your permission via the banner that appears when you first visit our webpages.

To opt-out, simply use the toggle buttons to specify the use of the optional cookies. Any selections you make will be automatically saved.

If you have already opted-in and now wish to opt-out, please email privacy@theswc.co.uk